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Joe84 · member Member # Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 262

wow im totally unimpressed by the winners of it. They arent bad, but ive seen better stuff posted up here and on conceptart.org that were in the running for the prizes.

http://www.blizzard.com/inblizz/contests/artcontest2006/

Jabo · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:27 pm

That's cute.

Yeah I see what you mean. But remember that some of those cool illus you saw over at CA and here where from people who did them before it was revealed that the valid countries are limited to the US and some others.

Joe84 · member Member # Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 262

ohh no way...i didnt know that.
cause i know m.c.barrett did a really nice hydralisk

Ranath · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:44 am

maybe they weren't as much of warcraft/diablo/starcraft style works? They have very unique style and maybe they were looking for reproductions of it? Besides, some may have gotten disqualified for living outside the States tt..

Mikko K · member Member # Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 639

The US wasn't the only eligible country. There was UK, France among others too.

It's strange that Cicinimo and MC Barret didn't do better in the contest.

Ranath · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:14 am

did Cicinimo enter? wow, I'd like to see his entry..

M@. · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:28 am

well I think Blizard has a very strong idea of their design style (which I don't really like as is, but which works great in their games), and they went in that line to select their winners. I'm also a bit unimpressed.

Cicinimo's entry is on his site (artpad.org) and it kicks major ass, I'm totally amazed that it didn't make it in the winners; but, as I said, it doesn't really fit blizzard's style.
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Ranath · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:54 am

Cicinimo · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:08 am

Thanks Mikko, m@, and Ranath!

I think their selections make sense (some of them are amazing!). M.C. Barrett (a good friend of mine and coworker) and I really kept to our normal ways of doing things. If I have a chance to enter next year I'll probably try to work closer to Blizzard's house style. In the end Barrett and I had a good time trying to outdo each other (he won in that) and we have new pieces to add to our portfolios.
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Ranath · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:51 am

now I feel like a total idiot but where can I see M.C. Barrett's piece? I tried google but only found his CA.org profile that had no images up...

Cicinimo · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:22 am

http://www.moonkatz.org/mbarrettart/hydralisksmall.jpg <-- Matt's entry (M.C.)
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Sumaleth · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:15 pm

That one's very cool too. I'm surprised you guys didn't pick up a couple of second places at least.
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Ranath · Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:58 am

Joe84 · member Member # Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 262